BACK FROM THE DEAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 8

BACK FROM THE DEAD

AFTER FORTY-THREE YEARS STORY OF YOUNG DROVER Forty-three years ago it was reported that a young drover, William George Cook, and a mate had been speared by blacks in Queensland. The remains of the two drovers" were identified and buried. On April 5 Mr. C. H. Cook, of the Railways Department, Port Lincoln, South Australia, received a letter stating that his father —the drover — was alive and well, and was living at Little Hampton, near Trenthatn, Victoria. It appears that the "dead" man communicated with the police at Port Germein, where his family was living when he was reported to have been killed. They traced a brother, Mr J. L. Cook, of Prospect, who communicated with, the dead man's son, Mr. C H. Cook, who said to-day that his father must be nearly 70 years of age "I was only 13 years old when 1 saw him last," he said. "It is inexplicable that at the time of his reported death letters from him suddenly ceased Until then he had written as frequently as his roving life permitted."